Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Abraham (1809–65) Sixteenth US President (1861–65). Elected to the Illinois legislature for the
Whig Party in 1834, he studied to become a lawyer. Lincoln served (1847–49) in the House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for the Senate for the new
Republican Party against Stephen A.
Douglas in 1858. He was Republican candidate for president in 1860. Lincoln's victory made the secession of the Southern, slave-owning states inevitable, and his determination to defend
Fort Sumter began the
Civil War. A strong commander-in-chief, he played a leading role in military planning. In September 1862, he issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, and in November 1863 delivered his famous
Gettysburg Address. Re-elected in 1864, Lincoln saw the war to a successful conclusion. On April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of Robert E.
Lee, Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes
Booth, a Southern sympathizer. He died the next day.
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Lincoln, Abraham
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